NIBIR KUMAR SOM Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Affidavit-of-service filed on behalf of the petitioner in Court be kept on the record. This writ application is filed by the petitioner assailing an order dated July 27, 2011 passed by the respondent No. 3 rejecting the prayer of the petitioner for extending the benefit of post-graduate scale of pay in connection with his services as an Assistant Teacher of Sagardighi S.N. High School, District-Murshidabad.

(2.) Having heard the learned Counsel appearing for the respective parties as also after considering the facts and circumstances of this case I find that the grounds for rejecting the prayer of the petitioner were as follows:--

(3.) The first ground for rejection has already been settled by a Division Bench of this Court by a judgment dated October 16, 2012 delivered in the matter of Asim Kumar Adgiri v. State of West Bengal & Ors. (In Re: MAT 1459 of 2012 with CAN 8487 of 2012) and the relevant portions of the above decision are set out below;--